Full name: The Great Migration: Journey to the North

Author: Eloise Greenfield Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Poetry, Children, Picture books, History Culture: African-American Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780061259210 0061259217

We were one family among the many thousands. Mama and Daddy leaving home, coming to the city, with their hopes and their courage, their dreams and their children, to make a better life. When Eloise Greenfield was four months old, her family moved from their home in Parmele, North Carolina, to Washington, D.C. Before Jan Spivey Gilchrist was born, her mother moved from Arkansas and her father moved from Mississippi. Both settled in Chicago, Illinois. Though none of them knew it at the time, they had all become part of the Great Migration. In this collection of poems and collage artwork, award winners Eloise Greenfield and Jan Spivey Gilchrist gracefully depict the experiences of families like their own, who found the courage to leave their homes behind during The Great Migration and make new lives for themselves elsewhere. The Great Migration concludes with a bibliography. Supports the Common Core State Standards Similar books: The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas Blues Journey by Walter Dean Myers Phillis's Big Test by Catherine Clinton I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes Heart and Soul by Kadir Nelson Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas Visiting Langston by Willie Perdomo Langston's Train Ride by Robert Burleigh The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman Pocketful of Posies by Salley Mavor Red Sings from Treetops by Joyce Sidman Mister Magnolia by Quentin Blake Owl Moon by Jane Yolen We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson Wabi Sabi by Mark Reibstein Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex